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Free your files! Get the most informative and complete Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual. This manual is packed with actionable info that you need to have to prevent infections, and what to do when you are hit with ransomware.

Industry data from leading analysts clearly indicates that in the past few years the backup and recovery appliance market has grown at a healthy pace. Often seen as a complement or replacement to traditional software deployments, appliances are undergoing a generational change.

Industry data from leading analysts clearly indicates that in the past few years the backup and recovery appliance market has grown at a healthy pace. Often seen as a complement or replacement to traditional software deployments, appliances are undergoing a generational change.

Savision’s new whitepaper by Microsoft MVP John Joyner covers how to effectively manage distributed and hybrid cloud components, and tools to visualize topology and workflow for effective decision-making in any IT scenario.

With a move to Windows 10 looming in many organizations, application sprawl remains a major problem. Application rationalization is the answer. What is that, and how is it implemented? Read this white paper to find out.

The world of security threats has changed since you moved to Windows Server 2003, so much so that you need an entirely new plan when migrating away from Windows Server 2003. Discover your best options here.

This technology brief will explain why highly reliable SSO between your on-premise network and O365 is crucial, and why that implementation is surprisingly difficult to achieve using the accessory tools provided with O365

This paper examines how cloud computing can be leveraged to develop DR capabilities that are both less expensive and easier to deploy than traditional methodologies. It also looks at the role of Commvault's cloud-based DR solution in the important market for DR services.

DCIG Competitive Advantage: Check out this comparison report from DCIG to find out how Symantec NetBackup remains better equipped than EMC Avamar as a single solution for comprehensive enterprise backup.

This four-page whitepaper contains an overview of a new approach to managing IT operations, explaining how Big Data analytics enables IT teams to better tackle problems that jeopardize the performance and availability of virtualized datacenters.

There’s no bigger challenge in IT today than keeping business applications continually running. The best way to do that is by monitoring applications. Find out in this white paper how, why and what to monitor.

Why would Box decide to integrate with Office 365, and thus put some of its enterprise heft behind Microsoft’s cloud productivity play that is widely associated with OneDrive, a Box competitor? Find out in this paper.

IT can no longer afford to devote resources to traditional migrations, only to deliver a sub-optimal target environment. Find out how your business can speed migration while ensuring proper structure and governance.

See how to prepare your organization for the security, management and governance you need for your superuser accounts. This informative ebook offers perspectives you can use to integrate a successful PAM program.

In The Spear-Phishing Attack Timeline, you’ll get an inside look at the anatomy of a spear-phishing attack. Step by step and day by day, you’ll see where the mistakes get made and how vulnerabilities get exploited – all leading up to that day when the CEO must make the rounds of national news media to admit that customer data has been compromised.

Get the tips you need to better control access to your organization’s critical data while meeting governance, compliance and security requirements. Read this paper and discover how Dell One Identity solutions can help.

Controlling and securing user access is a priority for every organization. Discover how Dell One Identity Manager helps you secure and meet standards for access control, customer data protection and network communications.

Download the CenturyLink executive brief "Optimizing for Innovation: How Hybrid IT Outsourcing Shifts IT Focus to Innovation" and explore how cost efficiencies can be achieved via the different elements of a Hybrid IT infrastructure outsource approach, allowing IT groups to apply more of the IT budget to innovation.

In today’s challenging economic environment, IT planners are continuously seeking innovative ways to enhance service levels and contain costs. Forward-looking organizations are revamping IT infrastructure and deploying virtualization solutions and private cloud services to improve
business agility and reduce equipment and operating expenses.

New Gartner research predicts that 75% of IT organizations will have a bimodal capability by 2017. Bimodal is a critical capability that combines the solid conventional capabilities of IT alongside a capability to respond to the level of uncertainty and the need for agility required for a digital transformation. According to Gartner, half of IT organizations that have a bimodal capability will make a mess. Learn more about Gartner's predictions for common mistakes that CIOs will make and how to avoid them.

This solutions brief discusses how open source solutions can help enterprise IT leaders respond to the three primary challenges they face today: 1) an inability to address line-of-business demands, 2) resources consumed by maintenance, and 3) technology threatened by unknown, disruptive changes in the future.

Adopt new technology faster. Turn IT from a cost center into a profit center. View this infographic to learn about alternatives to proprietary vendors and why 90% of Fortune 500 companies use Red Hat products and services to innovate ahead of business demands.

The nature of the financial services industry places a myriad of international compliance requirements on a company's IT team, as well as an expectation by its customers to deliver the high test levels of performance and reliability.

Desktop management at any scale is a tedious job. Imaging, reimaging, and troubleshooting desktop systems consume valuable IT resources, and keep employees from being productive. Securing the information generated on desktops, tablets, and smartphones is no simple job either.

SharePoint presents many unique backup issues only addressed by solutions purpose built for it. This ebook introduces the broad topic of disaster recovery and how its principles can be applied to SharePoint.

The forgotten arm of IAM is privileged account management (PAM). This free e-book contains essential information on common security issues associated with PAM, and how you can minimize or eliminate them.

The “Pass-the-Hash” (PtH) attack was originally documented in 1997, but has recently made a resurgence. Find out how PtH attacks work, as well as mitigation strategies recommended by Microsoft and the National Security Agency (NSA).

The forgotten arm of IAM is privileged account management (PAM). This free e-book contains essential information on common security issues associated with PAM, and how you can minimize or eliminate them.

Unix was here before Windows and, due to its stability, cost-effectiveness and openness, will be around for a while. However, twenty-first century realities demand access and security that goes beyond what worked 20 years ago.

Proper management of privileged accounts is about more than peace of mind; it’s also a compliance obligation. A hands-off approach risks security and can invite sanctions. Learn how your organization can effectively manage administrative privileges.

Effectively managing privileged, aka “superuser,” accounts is critical for security and compliance. Unfortunately, native tools are often inadequate for today’s enterprise. Learn how you can mitigate risks posed by superusers while preserving ease of use.

"Download CenturyLink’s executive brief, “Superstorm-Proof Your IT Infrastructure: How To Achieve 100% Resiliency” to learn more about why a responsive, current and customized IT infrastructure is crucial to maintaining uptime and mitigating disasters.

"Download the CenturyLink whitepaper: “Leveraging IT Infrastructure as a Service Enables Agile Responses to Constantly Changing Threats” to learn how you can help your organization protect itself — and its customers — from evolving internal and external threats.

Download the CenturyLink whitepaper: “The Three Pillars of Effective Disaster Recovery: DRaaS + Networking + Managed Hosting.” Learn how each pillar is essential as they combine to form the essential footing of an effective DR solution.

With more organizations seeing the business value of enterprise social networks (ESN), they’re also discovering that standardizing on one platform requires migrating data. Learn how you can create an effective ESN consolidation plan.

Gain control over your Active Directory (AD) landscape. Learn the key steps for modernizing your AD environment and how these can help you better address the needs of your organization to reduce vulnerability, risk and infrastructure costs.

Microsoft® Lync Server® can drastically improve the efficiency of business, but deployment can be demanding and expensive. Get detailed costs and benefits of using Lync Server, and learn how you can produce reports that demonstrate ROI.

Learn the most common causes of IT disasters and how to prepare for them, as well as best practices for establishing a recovery plan. You’ll also find out about tools that can help get your business up and running quickly after a human error, malicious attack or natural disaster.

Active Directory’s Recycle Bin has proved indispensable to administrators needing to restore single objects. However, there are many other recovery challenges that AD administrators must be prepared for. In this paper, Windows expert Don Jones lays out the specific capabilities and limitations of the AD Recycle Bin, as well as tools that can help your organization recover faster.

Good email recovery, eDiscovery and content management practices consist of several components. Read this report and discover why email recovery and governance is a necessity for your organization, and how to address problems in your email environment.

Discover key migration best practices that ensure complete, seamless transition to Microsoft Office 365 with minimal impact to your business. Read this paper to learn the importance of pre-migration planning and proper evaluation of migration solutions as well as why engaging a migration partner is a smart investment.

What if we told you there was an easy way you could get more out of SharePoint while improving business culture and workflows? Learn how a simple but powerful social collaboration solution can help optimize SharePoint.

Read this third-party report to learn about the attitudes of state and local government agencies towards Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) software, and see which features they rank as most critical when selecting a tool.

Find out how you can easily identify and report on who has access to what files, folders and shares, and on what servers - all with a solution that can support large, complex Windows environments. Read now.

Two-factor authentication is critical for safeguarding your company’s critical information. In this technical brief, discover five things to know before purchasing a two-factor authentication solution, and which solution is the best fit for your business.

Security concerns and compliance make the need to manage access a top priority. Read this e-book for the critical knowledge you need to understand the complexity of today’s access management issues, and the promise of a more unified, integrated approach.

Explore the most common IAM challenges facing Unix-based organizations, and learn about easily implemented practices and technologies that can help you increase security, achieve compliance and improve operational efficiency.

Good access control results from avoiding the use of local groups by assigning permissions through Active Directory (AD). Learn how AD groups are at the center of access control and governance–and what it takes to manage them.

Business is more personal than ever, with workers adopting new technologies to stay connected and productive at home, the office, anywhere. Enterprise information is flowing in and out IT systems at an unprecedented rate. Discover 12 strategies for digital agility to meet the evolving demands of your workforce AND the traditional enterprise requirements for security, transparency, and control. “By 2017, 75 percent of IT organizations will have gone bimodal in some way,” predicts Gartner. Discover how you can stay ahead of the curve. Published by Colligo.

This paper examines the difficulties and pain points that organizations encounter as they seek to straddle the conflicting pressures of ever increasing email volumes on one hand, and the need for faster, more flexible accessibility on the other.

This technical paper compares how basic workflow and business apps capabilities, including data integration, forms, workflow and management, are handled with both out-of-the-box SharePoint 2013 capabilities and K2 Appit for SharePoint.

Migrating from Windows Server 2003 is an excellent opportunity to consolidate servers. PrinterLogic enables you to completely eliminate your print servers giving you centralized control of your print environment from a single web application in your data center. Learn more.

Showing the contributions IT makes to the rest of the business can be challenging. Experts suggest leveraging readily-available management data to show how IT enables business initiatives and supports revenue generation.

While seemingly counter intuitive, organizations can actually create IT efficiencies without having to cut service levels by adopting a systems management strategy that embraces the concept of “Discover, Manage, Automate and Validate.”

As an IT professional, every second count. Your remote connection speed and reliability are critical to your ability to resolve issues quickly, maximizing IT efficiency and ensuring a happy and productive end user.

Learn the emerging trends in hyperconverged datacenters. Get the newly released IDC Marketscape report for 2015 to understand the leading solutions in the rapidly evolving Hyperconverged Platforms market segment. Read more!

What do growing trends like converged infrastructure and hyper-convergence really mean for your business? Learn the new approach to datacenter infrastructure that is set to transform enterprise IT. Learn more!

Microsoft will end support for Windows 2003 in July, 2015. What does this mean to you? It comes down to this: there will be no further patches or security updates, which puts your business at risk. With Microsoft estimating that it takes 200 days to migrate an application, the time is now to start your move.

Microsoft SharePoint has become one of the most widely used enterprise web application platforms, providing various business intelligence features, while enhancing collaboration and content management. However, in order for applications to perform to the best of their ability, deploying an application delivery controller (ADC) is essential.

Chances are your business utilizes a specific type of application that allows users to communicate across the network. To keep up with new technology changes and ensure your applications are running efficiently, it is critical to have an application delivery controller (ADC) in place. So where exactly do you begin?

Access this white paper to learn how the industry’s leading application delivery controller allows you to get more out of Exchange. You’ll learn how this approach allows you to reduce costs associated with deploying, managing, and operating your server environment.

An enterprise-ready unified communications platform, such as Microsoft Lync, has the power to connect people wherever there is network connectivity. So how do you ensure that this type of communication is able to provide maximum uptime, security from malicious activity, and access from a range of devices?

Companies need their applications to run smoothly in order to keep customers happy. Achieving this goal can be difficult, especially with so many different applications running at once. How can you make sure your clients are satisfied, without raising management costs?

Businesses are always on a mission to improve inefficient processes. They need to ensure real time communication, easy access to data files, and above all, collaboration. What kind of solution can enable all of these at once?

Many companies believe Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is the best choice for applications to integrate with AD. After all, both Active Directory and AD FS are from Microsoft and AD FS is 'free,' so that should be the best choice, right? Read on.

Decision makers in SMBs often raise concerns about cloud computing. There is a belief that cloud-based solutions cause SMBs to sacrifice security and control of their business-critical data. But, according to recent IBM research, businesses relying on cloud computing have a competitive advantage. And it’s generating twice the revenue – and profit – of their slower-to-adapt rivals.

Did you know that most companies usually find out about the security breach around 200 days after the occurrence (www.securityweek.com)? By that time, their confidential information is all over the web and it takes time and money to bring everything back to normal and regain your customers trust. Read this white paper to see why your business needs multiple layers of protection to stay secure.

Before the advent of laptops and the rise of remote workers, fixing problems with IT was easy and the devices IT admins managed were somewhere in the office. To make things even more complicated, remote workers rarely only have one device (such as laptops, tablets and smartphones). Read this white paper for top tips on how to manage your remote workers.

Administering IT in small and mid-sized companies can be a difficult task, often with a very small team responsible for hundreds of workers. This whitep aper provides top time-saving tips that IT admins can use to stay on top of their workloads, keep systems running and protected, and maintain a healthy work/life balance.

Nowadays, organizations can’t afford to operate without an email security strategy. The threat landscape is constantly changing with new threats appearing every day. This white paper looks at email security in small and medium businesses (SMBs), the solutions available and what features SMBs cannot do without.

Microsoft made a massive push to the cloud in 2014, and as a result Office 365 is taking off. We’re seeing it in how Okta customers are using Okta to connect to Office 365 in increasing numbers. This eGuide provides some data from the Okta Application Network on the trends we are seeing around Office 365.

Gain a better understanding of the limitations and capabilities of native auditing tools, and see why a third-party solution might be the best approach to protect your organization’s systems, data, productivity and bottom line.

Taneja Group recently turned their Technology Validation service - a hands-on lab service - to the task of evaluating whether Scale Computing's HC3 could deliver in the real world. For this task, Taneja put an HC3 cluster through the paces to see how well it deployed, how it held up under use, and what special features it delivered that might go beyond the features found in traditional integrations of discreet compute and storage systems.

This Essential Guide examines the opportunities and challenges of empowering, yet controlling, user access to SaaS applications. Specifically, identity management as a service promises to simplify secure access, and management of SaaS applications while reducing password sprawl. This guide will also review how mobile computing has added to the complexity of managing access to both corporate data and SaaS, and additionally help evaluate the options available on the market.

Migrating from WS2003 is an opportunity to consolidate servers. PrinterLogic enables you to completely eliminate your print servers and gets rid of the headaches associated with migrating from your print environment.

For most organizations, the move to Office 365 (O365) is a leap forward in user experience, productivity, IT simplification, and savings. But organizations that fail to implement Single Sign-On (SSO) reliably will expectedly experience an increase in risk and a decline in productivity. Learn more.

As mobile devices have pushed their way into the enterprise, they have brought cloud apps along with them. This app explosion means account passwords are multiplying, which exposes corporate data and leads to help desk calls from frustrated users. This paper will discover how IT can improve user productivity, gain visibility and control over SaaS and mobile apps, and stop password sprawl. Learn more.

SQL Server is a business critical application that requires high availability protection, regardless of where it is deployed. In the cloud, you need to protect SQL Server from downtime if the cloud instance or the cloud provider fails. Learn more.

Office 365 is supposed to save organizations money while still providing excellent functionality. But optimum savings isn’t a guarantee. It only happens as a matter of policy. Read more in this white paper.

This guide — intended for IT and security professionals — outlines the key elements of a certificate lifecycle management process and how to provide adequate tools and training to implement this process.

Entrust offers five specific best practices — with emphasis on strong authentication, identity assurance, mobile enablement and general layered security — that can help protect against targeted attacks now and over the long term. Read now!

This guide is intended for IT and security experts, CISOs, developers and SMBs alike. You’ll better understand how your current operating environment will be affected and how to migrate SSL certificates — quickly and cost-effectively — without compromising your security posture, risking operational outages or disrupting the customer experience. Learn more.

Download the eBook, A Fax Survival Guide: How to Avoid Disaster & Distress with Cloud Fax Services, to learn how IT administrators can avoid their fate as a “doomsday faxer” by taking fax services to the cloud.

Staying up to date with the most current faxing technology can be difficult for companies who have a limited operating budget and their own unique infrastructure requirements. Fortunately, a solution to easily and cost-effectively adopt the latest fax services has arrived — Esker Cloud Fax Services.

Relying on a fax machine or fax server is something many businesses are all too familiar with. The extra costs, tedious tasks and resource requirements can add up quickly, putting a strain on your bottom line. Now, you can simplify your ability to send faxes in any ERP environment with Esker Cloud Fax Services!

Are you facing increased demands for new functionality and advanced capabilities, which you must deliver with a constrained IT budget? Learn how modernizing your IT infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux can help.

This guide examines the major types of threats to information security that businesses face today and the techniques for mitigating those threats, along with a discussion of practices for implementing a business-centric security management strategy.

Data suggests that American companies can expect to suffer an online security breach once every four years. Yet a substantial number of companies and organizations appear unprepared yet confident. How prepared are you and your company? Despite confidence, the data also points to a degree of baseless optimism. Find out how you rank among other IT managers testing your website's vulnerabilities.

Web applications often require the use of SSL certificates in order to enable basic authentication and encryption services. Planning how to best deploy SSL certificates begins with assessing the kinds of operations performed by applications. Learn more.

In the fast-paced world of technology, it is not always easy to stay abreast of the latest advancements. For this reason it is wise to partner with a reputable Internet security company. This guide will de-mystify the technology involved and give you the information you need to make the best decision when considering your online security options. Read now!

For the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, millions of transactions per day placed a heavy burden on IT. CME Group chose to migrate to Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® for both flexibility and a balance in price and performance. Learn more.

This new white paper from 13-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Brien Posey, details five considerations to keep in mind when deciding to migrate a message archive from Microsoft Exchange to Office 365.

Can your business survive a disaster? You won’t really know until you have to, but you have to be prepared. Find out in this white paper how the cloud can play a role in disaster recovery, but maybe not in the way you’d think.

Nutanix not only helps you migrate, it also addresses the limitations of traditional centralized storage. We can help you get all the benefits without the challenges of a traditional 3-tier infrastructure.

Unexpected data loss can occur at any time. Whether due to natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and tornadoes or to more common events such as water main breaks, building fires and hardware failures, the consequences of data loss can be extensive and far-reaching. As an IT professional, it's up to you to educate your users and ensure a proper backup and disaster recovery plan is in place. Read on!

As security threats grow and become more malicious, the opportunities for security breaches increase as well. Keeping up with the threats and methods of protecting sensitive data places a huge burden on IT departments. Learn how you can ease that burden for your IT department. Read more!

Building automation into your IT department is vital if you want to provide high-quality, scalable IT services to your employees. By automating your IT tasks, you’ll have the bandwidth to provide better service to your employee without hiring additional staff. This eBook describes the benefits of IT automation and provides tips to help you get started automating your IT department.

Are you battling network zombies – or problems that you thought were dead which suddenly spring back to life? If so, you are not alone, as these creatures represent the most troublesome foe of the modern-day IT administrator. They are impossible to predict, appearing randomly without warning.

Traditionally, network administrators have not always gotten the respect they deserve. Over the last few years, however, there has been a growing awareness that the network is central to the success of the organization. Read on.

A help desk is critical to the operations of an IT department. As a centralized intake location for technical issues, it allows for a responsive and timely solution to get employees back to business as usual. Learn more.

From smartphones to tablets, as the popularity of mobile devices grows, the opportunity for security breaches grows as well, placing a new burden on IT departments. By providing mobile device management, IT professionals can ensure their organization remains protected from mobile security threats. Learn more.

For IT professionals to succeed, they need to implement low-cost and high-productivity practices that allow them to have a positive impact on their organizations’ bottom line. A global client management platform delivers an arsenal of IT management tools that help IT professionals proactively monitor and remotely manage and resolve IT issues. Read on.

Doctor Who — television’s great traveler through space and time — might be the ultimate backup specialist. Not only does he go on adventures with his companions in the TARDIS, he can recover from just about any disaster simply by regenerating himself.

If you don’t swoon at the words “disaster recovery,” we don’t blame you. After all, the term sounds kind of pragmatic. No-nonsense. Mandatory. We get it, but things may just change when you start thinking of disaster recovery in terms of Jack Bauer from 24.

In the words of epic book and TV series Game of Thrones, “Winter is coming,” and there’s never been a better time to be on your guard. After all, we live in a world of vicious attacks, scary data breaches, unpredictable weather, and other factors that can threaten the very existence of both your applications and your precious data.

Read this paper to learn about Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) and other storage optimization strategies that increase SharePoint performance without a massive and perhaps infeasible investment in storage. Learn more.

Read this paper to find out how to slash multi-terabyte farm backups from eight hours and up to just minutes using native SharePoint backup tools, automatically and continuously back up SharePoint content, and achieve item-level recovery – all without buying a third-party backup solution. Learn more.

Hyper-V has cemented itself in many organizations and nearly every company is using or evaluating Hyper-V today however many of these virtualization IT Pros are new to Hyper-V if not Microsoft technologies in general which is why this paper will arm readers with the most important ten things every Hyper-V using IT Pro needs to know. Learn more!

In this comprehensive white paper, Imanami, the leading provider of Group Lifecycle Management solutions, provides the best practices for AD Scrubbing, and eliminating group glut once and for all. Learn more!

In this comprehensive white paper, Imanami, the leading provider of Group Lifecycle Management solutions, provides the best practices for AD Scrubbing, and eliminating group glut once and for all. Learn more!

IT organizations stand at an important crossroads, one that will define whether they are a part of important strategic business decisions or relegated to the sidelines – all due to the accelerating BYOA (Bring Your Own Application) trend. Learn more.

Read this white paper to learn how you can achieve high availability within your SharePoint environment. Find out how to give your entire user community to continually access SharePoint, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work or collect the results of previous work at all times. Learn more.

Pass the hash is an extremely common method hackers employ to use your own systems against you. Learn how removing admin rights significantly decreases the ability to use local admin credentials in a PtH attack. Read now!

Download this customer interview conducted by John Pescatore, SANS Director of Emerging Security Trends and formerly Gartner’s Lead Security Analyst for 13 years, as he presents a beneficial user-to-user account and case study.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting Linux as a secure, reliable, and high-performing platform that lowers acquisition and operating costs while providing the agility needed to anticipate and react to changing business conditions. Learn more.

When a successful ISV needed to get their products into the hands of their power users as early and as often as possible, the traditional solution of nightly builds put unnecessary burden on the customer and internal IT teams. How did Infragistics meet the needs of Beta testers for updated builds on-demand and shorten the feedback loop? Find out now!

There is a misconception out there that governance has somehow been defined within SharePoint -- that there is a universally accepted model for every deployment type that is endorsed by Microsoft and/or the SharePoint expert community.

Among the functionality upgrades in Windows Server 2012 are improvements to Active Directory’s Recycle Bin. While this addresses many previous problems, it’s not the solution to all AD recovery concerns. Read now.